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If you've ever seen this, you've felt my pain:
# mount -vv -t nfs4 slap:/export/a/b/c /mnt
mount: pinging: prog 100003 vers 4 prot tcp port 2049
mount.nfs4: slap:/export/a/b/c failed, reason given by server: No such file or directory
My original thought was …
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If a Mac has the wrong time zone, scheduled jobs, log timestamps, calendar notifications, and incident timelines become harder to trust. The fix is simple, but it is worth separating the time zone from the clock itself: setting the zone changes how local time is displayed; it does not fix …
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I recently needed to archive a bunch of old home directories on a CIFS share mounted on my Windows XP virtual machine. I wanted each home directory to be archived independently so that I would have lots of smaller zip files rather than one huge one. Additionally, maintaining the directory …
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Network Appliance (NetApp) advanced single-instance storage (A-SIS) deduplication is a free technology that ships with every NetApp filer. The technology works at the block level to efficiently compress volumes so that you can get more data in a limited space. All the deduplication setup and maintenance operations are controlled with …
Posted on in Information Systems
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) released a summary of Round 1 BIP project awards yesterday via the BroadbandUSA.gov website. The document summarizes 68 projects and includes data collated from 6 press releases.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 appropriated \$7.2 billion to “expand broadband access to …
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Before version 1.8, Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook did not support automatic updating of your domain's Global Address List (GAL). Domain administrators were forced to creating a static copy of the GAL and make that available to Outlook via a change in the desktop's registry. With the latest …
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As I guessed a week ago, it was only a matter of time before the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) made its list of Round 2 BIP applications available online rather than in the previously released PDF format. The new online database coincides with the posting of Public Notice Filings. You …
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One of the suggestions for improving the performance of your website is to properly set the Expire and Cache-Control headers of the HTTP response for images. Since images rarely change, the Expire time should be set far in the future. This ensures that web browsers will attempt to retrieve the …
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Although Cisco now markets these phones and ATAs via their Small Business line, I still think of these devices as being Linksys. Although the software that Cisco provides for these devices comes with an upgrade executable, it is only for Windows operating systems. I have found that the easiest way …
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a href="{tag}arra"></a>Both the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) have made American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Round 2 application data available. The RUS is currently distributing their BIP application information in a PDF directory. The NTIA, on the other hand …
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Sometimes your wonderful Amazon Kindle may get hung and need a little help. How to go about issuing a hard or soft reset depends on which version of the Kindle you have.
Soft Reset: Hold down Alt-Shift-R
Hard Reset: Remove the back cover and insert a paperclip …
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The default username and password for all versions of Cisco Access Registrar (as of version 5.0):
Username: admin
Password: aicuser
Perhaps this will save you a little time someday.
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Note: This post is a natural continuation of my post Command Logging is Vital to System Administration.
The primary purpose of sudo is to allow system administrators to execute
commands as the superuser (AKA root). It allows a group of people to manage a
system without the hassle of keeping …
Posted on in Networking
In the following example, I'm going to set up a Simple Network Management Protocol version 3 (SNMPv3) user on a Cisco router with limited view of the system MIB.
Create an SNMP view that limits the user to the system MIB.
ROUTER(config)# snmp-server view SYSTEM system included
Create an …
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I use Unison to keep a few directories synchronized between my various workstations and a collocated server. Unison works great, but occasionally has problems in my mixed operating system environment. The most frequent problem is
Failed: Destination updated during synchronization
This error message is not very helpful at all. Newer …
